As a company in the Energy & Materials industry, you typically operate in an environment where efficiency, sustainability, and safety are paramount. Managing complex supply chains, ensuring regulatory compliance, and optimizing resource utilization are all critical to staying competitive.

For companies in Energy & Materials, integrating information and processes across departments—such as engineering, production, and procurement—is essential to ensure smooth operations. However, when CAD, PLM, and ERP systems function in silos, it becomes difficult to share data across the enterprise. This can result in inefficiencies, costly delays, and missed opportunities for innovation. To meet these challenges, a deep integration between Engineering and Operations is crucial.

Bluestar PLM offers a solution that connects your entire product and project lifecycle, bringing real-time information into a single source of truth. This empowers your teams to collaborate more effectively, reduces time to market, and ensures compliance with industry regulations, ultimately driving better business outcomes.

Challenges of a non-embedded PLM and ERP system

  • Manual data synchronization between the ERP, PLM and CAD systems can cause data misalignments.

  • Reusing data is challenging due to time-consuming manual data transfers.

  • Missing visibility in end-to-end business processes leads to non-value-added work time.

  • Order fulfillments are delayed by bottlenecks causing operational performance to suffer.

  • Sharing engineering data between different sites can be troublesome without a common data management system.

Your benefits with Bluestar PLM

A single source of product truth

Embedding PLM in ERP ensures reliable product data access across departments and locations, reducing errors and enabling accurate, informed business decisions.

Design automation

Automatically generate 3D CAD-models and detailed drawings based on product variants and configurations. As a result, you will save hundreds of hours otherwise spent on design processes.

Worldwide collaboration

Centralizes product data in a global repository, enabling distributed engineering and manufacturing teams to collaborate and share data across the organization.

Better quality products

Allows you to standardize your business processes to easily repeat them over and over. This makes it much easier to optimize your predefined product configurations, for optimal end product.

Simplified IT structure

The ERP-based PLM integration simplifies IT, reduces PLM maintenance and ownership costs, and enhances user adoption with a unified Dynamics 365 F&SCM interface.

Reduced costs

With largely automated business processes and product standardizations, optimized processes are obviously cheaper than developing a new process or product that is only ever used once.

More innovation

The time you save with standardized business processes and configured products can be used to optimize existing processes and new product developments.

Fewer mistakes

Repetition of processes means more routine in execution. Potential errors are prevented and production is streamlined.

Out-of-the-box building blocks

eBOM+mBOM

One single solution for smart management of data in both eBOM and mBOM.

After-Sales Redesign & Repair

After-sales & Refurbishment optimize resources, reduce waste, and promote sustainability.

Product Configurator

Manage BOMs and variants in one system, automating CAD and D365 F&SCM setups from a unified 150% BOM in ERP.

What have our customers accomplished?

AMF Bakery Systems

Achieved 150% revenue growth through PLM and ERP implementation. Reduced errors and enhanced quality management improved product reliability. Streamlined processes boosted productivity across all departments.

Schréder

Advanced configurator capabilities, allowing customization of products with numerous standard variants, facilitating the configuration of unique client specifications seamlessly inside Dynamics 365 F&SCM.

Scanlab

Automated mBOM creation from eBOMs, ensuring accuracy and current data. Strengthened change control, minimized duplication, and maintained data integrity, boosting traceability and preventing redundant efforts.